My name is Pablo Stanley I am a designer at InVision I also write comics and I
this is kind of funny but uh I'm a YouTuber I do YouTube videos - yeah
stuff like that
the challenges of being the lead designer a studio platform are that this
is this is all new, this is a product that is coming up off the ground so the
challenge is that we're creating something there's no precedent on what
we're doing so we're but but it's also the most exciting part of it that were
that it's just a big thing that we're learning and we're growing and we're
just like while we're doing we're realizing a lot of things I think the
biggest challenge is that we want to give a product that a designers and
makers really enjoy working with so we're creating something that will
invite any maker to create amazing design tools for everyone else and we're
really excited about that
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I suppose after doing a lot of work and and and
being out there and using social media and I had been lucky to be number
one to be given a position as a designer in companies that have a big reach and
that being in that position I realized that a probably there's an opportunity
for me to reach out to other Latin@s and Hispanic people that will that are
interested in this that are interested in the design that working in a start-up
working in tech and working in design and I think being in that position I
think it gives me some kind of I felt a little bit of a responsibility to give
back to the community and probably bring other people into the conversation
and I just know that there are a lot of people in Latin America and Mexico and
Spain there are amazing creatives and sometimes their voices might not be as
heard in the design community and this the tech bubble and so I want to open
that bubble for other people to like come in and make it a little bit more
diverse that's probably my goal
I'd do it oh I also do it for selfish reasons I want to be able to give to
connect with all people that talk my language and that that share a
little bit of my culture too I suppose there's a selfish reason there
too and but yeah oh my Latinx homeboys and homegirls
yeah so my talk is about web accessibility and I'm super excited
about this because usually when you hear about web accessibility it's almost like
a thing that you need to do is like oh my god that sounds boring that sounds
like no and and there's this mint that it's expensive that it's boring that
it's hard and I I wish that people after the talk they feel inspired to actually
check whatever work they have done and see if it is accessible and also feel
empowered that they that oh the things that they need to do to make their work
a little bit more accessible are not that hard and actually can be one of
those challenges that make their work a little bit more fun so that's my goal
to break that myth that accessibility work is boring and
it's hard it's it's not
I think we hear a lot about immersive design and also about it sounds like a
joke but the best interface is no interface but it's true in the future I
think we're going to be slowly getting rid of the screen and actually the
environment is the interface the the things that surround you and you're
going to be interacting with it with these objects and these this interface
in a totally different way that is not probably I wonder what the double-click
of the future is what the let's live in the right swipe is what are those same
patterns that we they're so ingrained in our minds now in the future it will be I
mean there already are voice commands and probably gestures that are more like
fluid and more or organic so I'm pretty excited about that and I think it's I am
also excited about how many people are already talking about that and you see
it here at the awards conference people really say like a this is a future we
should be talking about this and also the implications the ethical
implications of all the work that is behind this and it's really interesting
to see a lot of people just opening up about this and I'm excited about the
future
my future projects I I can speak of sentences get to speak of the the
present projects that are that hopefully in the future are going to have have
grown into beautiful things right now I'm going through the challenge of being
a like design lead but but also a part of the job is being like a manager and I
think I that is telling you for me and I really want to do my best of that and
probably by going through this experience I get to learn and grow and
probably share what I learned with other people which is I think a the best way
to learn is by teaching so hopefully I get to share everything that I that I
literally learn through this experience I also I have no idea what the future
has for me I tend to not really think too much about that because I feel like
if I start thinking too much about it I it gets a little bit scary and dark so
I'm focusing on this right now and which is pretty fun